Bid to deceive police

Man gave twin’s name

He admitted he was Damon Miller and police had worked out his deception.

A convicted drug trafficker attempted to pass himself off as his twin brother when police found him in possession of a stolen Nissan Navara utility and two stolen rifles.

Damon Jye Miller faced Toowoomba Magistrates Court on Tuesday where it was revealed that police patrols on February 26 identified the suspect vehicle because it was bearing false plates.

Police made inquiries at the address where it was parked and spoke to Miller, who denied any involvement with the vehicle.

Police prosecutor Anita Paige told the court Miller gave his name as that of his twin brother’s.

The utility was towed to a secure location where police recovered two stolen firearms, a .222 Remington centre-fire rifle and a .177 air rifle, along with Miller’s bank card.

“The police attended his address at 9.40pm on the same night where they found him in the living room and Nissan keys nearby,” she said.

“He admitted he was Damon Miller and police had worked out his deception.”

Police also located an amount of stolen jewellery and a small amount of Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB).

Miller was arrested and charged with 15 offences including two counts of receiving tainted property, firearms or ammunition and four counts of breaching bail.

Police prosecutor Anita Paige

The court was told the 26year-old Toowoomba man was on bail for a trafficking charge at the time of the offending.

Acting for the defence, Sarah Campbell, of Skuse Graham Lawyers, told the court her client’s history of drug abuse started when he was 17, and he had made efforts to get clean after he was charged with trafficking in 2021.

However, he relapsed after he learned he would be jailed for the offence.

“Prior to the Supreme Court sentence my client had engaged with Lives Lived Well and was clean but then panicked and relapsed into drug use,” she said.

“This offending occurred in the context of that relapse.”

Miller pleaded guilty in Toowoomba Supreme Court on May 12 to trafficking meth, where he was given a threeyear-jail sentence and a parole release date of October 20, 2023.

After Miller pleaded guilty to the remaining charges in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court on May 30, he was sentenced to seven months in jail, to be served concurrently with the Supreme Court sentence.